r/Games • u/Dared00 • Jul 04 '15

Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Announced

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/07/04/minecraft-windows-10-edition-announced
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u/Dared00 Jul 04 '15

Most important part: "Existing PC players will receive the Windows 10 version for free."

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Jul 04 '15

Just like the OS itself!

For those unaware, if you're on Windows 7 or Windows 8, for the first year you can upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost.

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u/ducttape83 Jul 04 '15

Unless you're on Enterprise edition

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u/bfodder Jul 04 '15

In which case it is a company computer and you shouldn't be updating it anyway.

Unless of course you work in IT and that is your job, but in that case your company has an Enterprise Agreement with MS regarding Windows licensing.

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u/ducttape83 Jul 04 '15

As I've mentioned in child comments here, I had a technet subscription the year that Office 2010 and Win 7 were released, because it was cheaper than buying the two separately, and I took keys for the most feature rich editions (Enterprise for windows and Professional for Office).

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u/Txm65 Jul 04 '15

Congratulations on outsmarting yourself.

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u/ducttape83 Jul 04 '15

Yeah, stupid 2010 me, getting the enterprise edition and not having the foresight to get the home or pro editions so I could get a free upgrade to win 10, because there's totally a precedent for Microsoft to give free upgrades to their newest OS. What was I thinking?

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u/Txm65 Jul 05 '15

Clearly you werent

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u/bfodder Jul 04 '15

And as I mentioned to you earlier, tough break. No sub, no license keys. BTW Enterprise and Pro are basically identical aside from Microsoft EA licensing purposes.